Name any cutting-edge tech industry, and Qualcomm has probably stuck its metaphorical nose in and said, “Hey, our chips can make your tech twice as good.”

Just in the last few months, the chip maker developed a “Smart Audio Platform” for better Alexa smart speakers; built the Snapdragon 845VRDK for room-scale 6DoF VR tracking on standalone headsets, and released an AI engine that improves most smartphones’ task speeds.